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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by freese on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @08:37PM (#13936503)
Apparently the companies making coffee for planes have (de)pressure chambers to conduct tastings.
Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by Balgair on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:21AM (#13940497)
If that is true, they they are running incredible margins to afford that. A human sized negative pressure chamber is not any easy thing to obtain or maintain, even to airplane climates specs. Most likely, they rent out time on someone else's chamber or just take a chartered flight and test on the plane.